Earl Norman

The Earl Norman books are becoming extremely rare, and publishers don’t seem to be interested in reprinting the series. The only way some of us may ever have all the stories is for collectors to scan and type the stories into PDF to swap with other collectors. I have already completed PDFs of HANG ME IN HONG KONG and KILL ME IN ROPPONGI. I am working on KILL ME IN YOKOSUKA. If other collectors would do the same for some of the other books, we could eventually have PDFs of all ten books. Why not help? I can be contacted at fadingshadows40@gmail.com

Friday, November 20, 2015

Secret Mission To Bangkok

Colonel North #20: “Secret Mission To Bangkok” by Van
Wick Mason. The plane from Hong Kong to Bangkok, Thailand, carried a variety of
personages. Colonel North, of Army G-2 was interested in one man however, Hans
Bracht who was traveling incognito as Harry Barrows. Bracht was a rocket
scientist on America’s Project Galaxy program. His wife, the beautiful Tao
Muong was missing, and suspected of being kidnapped by the Reds to get the
scientist in their hands. North was there to see they didn’t. Someone on the
plane may be the Red handing the kidnapping: Miss Lita Naline, a Hollywood star
of mysterios background; Mr. Anton Carss, Hollywood producer; Mr. John Wallen,
another Hollywood actor; Mr. Lex Ross, a Hollywood actor who once had been a
Red agent; Millionaire Chu Hoong, a big shot businessman in Bangkok; M. Georges
Marchet, a Frenchman now of South Vietnam, and drug addict; Fraulein Mary
Hollberg of West Berlin; and Mr. Boris Salenkov of Moscow. It was up to Colonel
North to protect Bracht, and unmask the Red agent. The story was a bit slow, as
we’re introduced to all the suspects, and though things are happening, Colonel
North doesn’t do too much until the climax. But it’s a slam-bang ending, with a
air fight between plans when the Red agent tries to flee to North Vietnam with
Bracht. There are actually two mysteries in the story, the second interfering
with the first, mudding the waters for the G-2 operative.

1 comment:

The controversy of verse John 3:5 is that born of water does not mean water baptism, but means natural childbirth.

John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.(NKJV)

If born of water means natural childbirth, then all babies who die in the womb, all babies who been aborted, and all babies who die in miscarriages would be prevented from entering the kingdom of God. In other words many innocent babies would be cast into hell through no fault of their own.

If born of water means natural childbirth, in other words born of amniotic fluid, then John 3:5 would have to be interpreted "unless one is born of amniotic fluid and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

John 3:5 in relation to other Scriptures makes more sense to be interpreted "unless one is born of water baptism and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Mark 16:16 "He who believes and is baptized will be saved..(NKJV)

There is no Scripture that states, "He who believes and is born of amniotic fluid will be saved?"

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." (NKJV)

Jesus told Nicodemus he needed to be born again to see the kingdom of God. Being born of amniotic fluid is being born the first time, it is not being born again.

Being buried with Christ in water baptism symbolizes death.In being buried with Christ in water baptism we are literally being spiritually born again. That is the new birth.

Romans 6:3-8 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.........8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,(NKJV)

All men must be born again to enter the kingdom of God.

Being born of amniotic is being born the first time, it not being born again.